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Genius Scraper

Genius Scraper

epctex/genius-scraper
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The Genius.com scraper extracts songs and lyrics from the platform. It fetches details from song, album, artist pages, supports tag-based retrieval, searches, and includes comments. Simplify accessing and analyzing music content from Genius.com.

The code examples below show how to run the Actor and get its results. To run the code, you need to have an Apify account. Replace <YOUR_API_TOKEN> in the code with your API token, which you can find under Settings > Integrations in Apify Console. Learn more

1# Set API token
2API_TOKEN=<YOUR_API_TOKEN>
3
4# Prepare Actor input
5cat > input.json <<'EOF'
6{
7  "startUrls": [
8    "https://genius.com/Fifty-fifty-cupid-twin-version-lyrics",
9    "https://genius.com/albums/Fifty-fifty/The-beginning-cupid",
10    "https://genius.com/artists/Drake",
11    "https://genius.com/tags/pop",
12    "https://genius.com/search?q=tiktok"
13  ],
14  "search": "rap",
15  "searchMode": "song",
16  "maxItems": 20,
17  "endPage": 1,
18  "extendOutputFunction": "($) => { return {} }",
19  "customMapFunction": "(object) => { return {...object} }",
20  "proxy": {
21    "useApifyProxy": true
22  }
23}
24EOF
25
26# Run the Actor using an HTTP API
27# See the full API reference at https://docs.apify.com/api/v2
28curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/epctex~genius-scraper/runs?token=$API_TOKEN" \
29  -X POST \
30  -d @input.json \
31  -H 'Content-Type: application/json'
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  • 7 monthly users
  • 1 star
  • 100.0% runs succeeded
  • Created in Jun 2023
  • Modified 2 days ago